Month: April 2017

“We know that our forefathers very generally kept the beginning of May as a great festival, and it is still regarded as the trysting time of witches – i.e. once of wise-women and fays; who can doubt that heathen sacrifices blazed on that day?” – Jacob Grimm ‘Teutonic Mythology’ The ultimate Walpurgis Night party was…

Tír na nÓg are the islands of everlasting youth and beauty, not unlike Peter Pan’s fictional Neverland. Populated by gods and spirits who no longer have any connection to our world, it is possible for humans to visit, although returning is not usually easy due to the different way in which time passes there. The…